4 Mar 2020 4:59 am
So then there has to be a sufficient supply of providers to take MFA patients and provide total coverage. Then I am satisfied.Cannonpointer » 04 Mar 2020 4:53 am » wrote: And you have a degree. Amazing.
Doctors who don't accept medicare aren't "prejudiced." Everyone who doesn't behave as you imagine they ought is not a bigot.
Medicare pays a bottom rate - which is still a handsome enough salary to give a doctor a good living. But the very best doctors are in such high demand and such short supply that they don;t NEED medicare patients. They can make more money turning those patients down. Who are you to decide their competency and value?
That said, even if you could make the MORAL case, you cannot make the practical one. As a practical matter, doctors will ALWAYS be able to get around any scheme that would enslave them to a single payer.
You keep betraying a rather adolescent desire to level the playing field, when you ought to be focusing on getting a decent and humane cut of the pie for the bottom tier. If you went to sleep for a hundred years when you awoke, there would still be a top and there would still be a bottom and there would still be space between them. Getting rid of it is not a wise ambition. Shrinking it is.